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Considering how big a joke Santorum is, this shouldn't have been a contest to begin with. Given that, the rational logic that says that because Romney is winning enough individual states and therefore the primary should be over doesn't really apply.

Republicans know how bad a candidate Romney would be, but they can't find any way to get rid of them.

And if Romney actually loses a state to frothy, then all bets are off.

Is that why George Will wrote a column saying that the Republicans should give up on trying to beat Obama?

Is that why an avalanche of Republicans have been calling for a brokered convention to prevent Romney from getting the nomination?

I stopped listening or reading George Will a long, long time ago. I chuckle every time I see a Dem supporter rip a conservative columnist for writing a piece they disagree with, then point to the same column as gospel when they write something that goes against the GOP.

And I would like to know who this "avalanche" of Republicans are who are calling for a brokered convention. This brokered convention talk has only been seriously done by two groups - media types who want some excitement at the conventions, and Dems who want to keep the focus off Obama.

I find it funny how so many media types and Dems think this GOP primary is so drawn out, when just 4 short years ago Hillary Clinton didnt drop out of the Dem primary until June when Obama crossed the delegate count he needed.

FWIW, I suspect that Andy R is a ruse. He intends to incite reaction in order to bring out first responders. Think of him in abstract terms: he's like a giant negative point charge which attracts oppositely charged commenters.

Why?

He/she gets off on it and it's also a way of drawing out and judging the strengths of your enemies.

Just a hypothesis. But Andy R has never been able to defend his positions rationally so there's that.

Does anyone vote for anyone because they fake a liking for grits or say y'all? At least when Romney said that competing in the South was like playing an away game he showed a smidgen of honesty, for which he deserved and might have gotten the respect of a Southerner. But who likes a panderer?

So...what will get more play tonight? The primary results, or the news out this evening that the CBO has doubled the cost of ObamaCare? (We're now up to $1.76 trillion over 10 years...thats trillion with a T).

To me, though, the greatest gay activist feat of propaganda was how they spun the Catholic church scandal.

A too-tolerant Catholic church allowed very sexually active gay priests to "administer to their flocks."This led of course to the priests dying off in large numbers in the gay AIDs epidemic...and allowed the chickenhawk gays to spot and recruit gay teenagers..and be quitely moved from parish to parish when some pederastly surfaced on teen complaints and legal settlements also quietly done.

The great feat of the gay propagandists was to 'reframe it" as having nothing to do with the priests being gay...but the clever alliterative "pedophile priests" label they slapped on it swept the media.Even though there was no significant fraction of smooth-skinned little boy "chickens" they were feasting on, (no girls BTW) that happened to be under 12. All mostly willing gay adolescent boys of the "rent boy" sort.

The media played along with the gay agenda.What happened in the RCC was told to the public as victimizing prepubescent "children" and the vile perps were not gay, but some magical "don't care what gender their target is" kiddie pervs.

Then the gay activists and eager liberal atheists and progressive Jewish leaders in the media doubled down and proclaimed this "pedophile priest scandal" showed the moral bankruptcy of intolerant Christians over the morally superior persecuted gays.

Given the delagate math, in order for Santorum to have a realistic chance to win the nomination outright, he cannot do it with narrow victories in states extremely favorable to him - especially where delegates are appointed proportionally.

This month was always going to be tough for Romney given the states involved, but as long as he can keep it close until his strong states return, he's on a glide path.

Alabama and Mississippi are not winner take all states. Santorum may have won, but Romney still walks away with delegates. Moreover, there are winner take all states coming up, like California, that Santorum will very likely lose.

Very slim possibility. Run the numbers. Romney could get beat, but the percentages favor Romney. All he needs are 42% of the remaining delegates and he's likely to win a few winner-take-all states, like Utah and, I'd guess, California and probably Wisconsin and Maryland.

Santorum is the only conservative candidate left in this race. Romney is Obamalite and is a total joke I won't vote for him. Effete college town "Republicans" like the professor look down on real conservatives like those in Miss and Alabama, but they are the true patriots.

Interesting. It is amusing to the libs to try to be condescending and discuss 'cheesy grits' as some sort of lower class declasse type of food......when polenta with parmesan cheese (which is basically the same thing)is served in the finest restaurants in liberal land.

@Dose - You could be right about a Newt dropout shaking up the race. My friends who are Newt supporters all tell me Romney is their second choice, but that's anecdotal and they very well could be humoring me!

@Saint - I've made this point months back, but Republicans have an almost unbroken records of nominating the guy who finished second that last time around. 2016 is the best reason for Newt keep running. On the other hand we’ve seen Newt display quite the range of emotions. The calm Newt might gracefully back out after some reflection.

The single most important factor in predicting how well Mitt does in a state's GOP primary is the percentage of Evangelicals in the state. Lots of Evangelicals mean Mitt will do poorly. I'm guessing that Bama and Miss. have more than their fair of Evangelicals.

In November, Mitt will still win these Evangelical votes because they would rather vote for a Mormon than a Muslim (according to an Evangelical friend of mine).

I am shocked, just shocked, that something the big O said about his Obamacare was a lie!.

Leave it to the pansies of Chapell Hill to ruin grits by serving it with arugala.(maybe they'll hang another banner for it it{Helm's ref}if you don't know, you don't know bball)

As far as the evangelicals voting for Mittens, yes they will, like a tidal wave, if Mittens wins the nomination. Ain't no one handed it to him yet.

Prayer to God...please, please let Americas Politico be telling the truth(about it being the end of Americas Politico).

As and anecdote for people making fun of cheesy grits. I've worked all over the country, from Mass. to Colo., and the only time, the onliest time, I ever got a bad meal at Cracker Barrel was in Albany NY. You have to really try hard to eff up a Cracker Barrel meal to make it taste bad.

Looks like Mr Romney maintains a significant lead in delegates--the only figure that counts--and given, as was pointed out above, the remaining states will most liekly favor Mr Romney. As for a brokered convention, I cant recall when the last time there was one. It would be great fun to watch.